OPY vs. GAMI, TIGR, AC, WT, NAVI, MVF, ORC, IVR, WASH, and FPH
Should you be buying Oppenheimer stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Oppenheimer include GAMCO Investors (GAMI), UP Fintech (TIGR), Associated Capital Group (AC), WisdomTree (WT), Navient (NAVI), BlackRock MuniVest Fund (MVF), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), Washington Trust Bancorp (WASH), and Five Point (FPH). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
GAMCO Investors (NYSE:GAMI) and Oppenheimer (NYSE:OPY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
GAMCO Investors has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oppenheimer has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
GAMCO Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Oppenheimer pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. GAMCO Investors pays out 6.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Oppenheimer pays out 16.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
GAMCO Investors has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Oppenheimer. GAMCO Investors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Oppenheimer, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Oppenheimer received 302 more outperform votes than GAMCO Investors when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, GAMCO Investors had 6 more articles in the media than Oppenheimer. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for GAMCO Investors and 2 mentions for Oppenheimer. GAMCO Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Oppenheimer's score of 0.13 indicating that Oppenheimer is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
GAMCO Investors has a net margin of 25.81% compared to GAMCO Investors' net margin of 3.25%. Oppenheimer's return on equity of 35.19% beat GAMCO Investors' return on equity.
3.3% of GAMCO Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.3% of Oppenheimer shares are owned by institutional investors. 81.2% of GAMCO Investors shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.5% of Oppenheimer shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
GAMCO Investors and Oppenheimer tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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